the subjects of the study are only the tefl teachers and students at gilan university. to obtain the desired data, a questionnaire which was based on the theories and disecussions gathered, was used as the main data gathering instrument. to determine the degree of relationship between variables, covariance and pearson product moment correlation coefficient were the formulas applied. the data we...

the purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the relation between efl teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and their success. moreover, the study was an analysis of the teacher age, gender and years of teaching experience, to examine the manner in which these factors relate to teacher self-efficacy as defined by bandura (1997) and teaching effectiveness as evaluated by their own student...

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...

The Barfakeh lead and zinc ore deposit is located 40km NW of Shahrood in the East Alborz techtonic zone. The rocks adjacent to this ore deposit include the Shemshak formation, which consists of shale and sandstone with the age in the upper Terias to Lias range, tuffs of the Karaj formation, and Conglomerates of the Fajan formation. The host rock of the ore deposit is the massive limestone of La...

Cancers are the 2nd cause of death, especially gastric and esophagus cancers are among the most fatal cancers in Iran. The aim of the present study is to estimate and compare the survival rates in patients with gastric and esophagus cancers. Materials and Methods: After extracting information of patients with gastric and esophagus cancers registered in cancer registry of Fars province, they fo...